Door-hanger.



PATENTED FEB. 13, 1906.

J. H. LAWRENCE. DOOR HANGER.

APPLIOATION runn mum, 1905.

UIJI'IEDv STATES- PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. LAWRENCE, OF STERLING, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO EDWIN F. LAWRENCE, OF STERLING, ILLINOIS.

DOOR-HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 13, 1906.

Application'filed July 31,1905. Serial lie- 271.920.

To all who m it VitdbZ/GOTLCWIL.

Be it known that I, JOHN H. LAWRENCE, a

citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Sterling, in the county of Whiteside and State of Illinois, haveinvented cer- This invention relates to that type of over-' head door-hangers adapted to admit of an outward tilting of the door away from the door-frame for. ventilation and other usual functions; and the presentimprovementhas.

for its objectto provide. a-simple andeificient structural formation and combination .of parts adapted to permit such outward tilting of the door without involving a corresponding tilting of the hanger-frame and.track-pulleys upon the track,with the consequent liability to binding, excessive wear, and disengagement of the parts, all as will hereinafter more fully appear, and be more particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a rear elevation illustrating the application of the present invention to a door-hanger having a plurality of track-pulleys. Fig. 2 is a transverse section at line a; m, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation illustrating the invention applied to a door-hanger having a single track-pulley.

Similar numerals of reference indicate like parts in the different views. 7

Referring to the drawings, 1 is the trackrail, having the usual lateral brackets 2, by which attachment is made to the wall of a building.

3 is the track-pulley,formed with the usual grooved periphery to fit the track-rail and provided with the usual axial shaft 4, by which it is journaled in the inverted-U-shaped upper portion 5 of the pulley-frame.

6 is the lower portion of the pulley-frame, having a hook shape adapted to engage under the track-rail to retain the hanger in place upon the rail.

7 is a flange or ledge arranged upon the pulley-frame intermediate its height, and preferably formed by slitting the vertical front wall of the pulley-frame and bending a part thereof down to form such flange or ledge, as shown in Fig. 2.

8 represents pivot-eyes formed upon or secured to the rear vertical wall of the pulleyframe and located in a portion adjacent to the track-rail, as shown.

9 is a pendent strap, of which there may be one or more to eachpulley-fra'me, depending upon the arra-ngementof parts. In a pulley-frame having duplicate track-pulleys,

will be used and'located midway between the.

as illustrated in Fig. 1, a single-broadustrap track-pulleys, while in a pulley-frame having:

a single track-pulley, as illustrated in Fig. 3,

a pair. of said straps will be used and located at the respective sides of thetrack-pulley:

In the present construction the aforesaid stra com rises a mainavertical ortion 9 I door, and an angularly-arranged upperi portion which passes through an orifice-formed adapted for attachment to the face of the inthe-vertical walls of the pulley-frame for pivotal connection to, said pulley-frame, inv

manner now to be'xdescribed.

11 is a pivot-eye formed on the inner end of the upper portion 10 of the hanger-strap and adapted, in connection with the pivoteyes 8 of the pulley-frame, to receive the horizontal ivot-rod 12, by which the strap is pivotal y connected to the pulley-frame.

With the construction described a substantial support for the door is provided in that under ordinary conditions no stress is imposed upon the pivot-rod 11, the stress being wholly between the hanger-strap and the ledge or flange 7 of the pulley-frame. A more material advantage of such construction lies, however, in the fact that with the pivot-axis arranged to the rear and adjacent to the track-rail an outward tilting of the door upon such pivot-axis will have little, if any, tendency to cause the pulley-frame to cant over and bind upon or become disengaged from the track-rail.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new, and desire to se cure by Letters Patent, is

1. A door-hanger com rising a track, a frame having vertical wa ls and pivot-eyes upon its inner wall, a hanger-strap adapted to be attached to a door and provided with an angular upper portion extending through the vertical walls of the frame and a pivoteye located at the inner end of the said upper portion, and a pivot-rod connecting the pivoteyes of the strap and the frame together; substantially as set forth.

2. A door-hanger comprising a frame pr0- vided with an opening in its "vertical walls, means for effecting a sliding engagement between said frame and a track-rail, a hangerstrap adapted for attachment to a door and provided with an angular upper portion adapted to pass through the opening in the vertical walls of the frame, the inner end of said upper portion having a pivot-eye, the frame aving pivot-eyes on its inner Wall, and a pivot-rod connecting the pivot-eyes of the ?trap and frame together, substantially as set orth.

3. A door-hanger comprising a frame provided with an opening in its vertical walls and with a ledge or flange at the bottom of the opening in the front wall of the frame, means for effecting a sliding engagement between said frame and a track-rail, a hangerstrap adapted for attachment to a door and provided with an angular upper portion adapted to ass through the opening in the vertical wal s of the frame, the inner end of said upper portion having a pivot-eye, the frame having pivot-eyes on its inner wall, and a pivot-rod connecting the pivot-eyes of the strap and frame together, substantially as set forth.

4. A door hanger comprising a pulleyframe provided with a central opening in its vertical walls, a pair of track-pulleys journaled in said frame at the sides of said opening, a hanger-strap adapted for attachment to a door and provided with an angular upper portion adapted to pass through the opening in the vertical walls of the pulley-frame, the inner end of said up er portion having a pivot-eye, the pulleyame having pivoteyes on its inner Wall, and a pivot-rod connecting the pivot-eyes of the strap and pulley-frame together, substantially as set forth.

5. A door hanger comprising a pulleyframe provided with a central opening in its vertical walls and with a ledge or flange at the bottom of the opening in the front wall of the frame, a pair of track-pulleys journaled in said frame at the sides of said opening, a hanger-strap adapted for attachment to a door and provided with an angular upper portion adapted to pass through the opening in the vertical walls of the pulley-frame, the inner end of said upper portion having a pivot-eye, the pulley-frame having pivoteyes on its inner walls, and a pivot-rod connecting the pivot-eyes of the strap and pulley-frame together, substantially as set forth. Singed at Sterling, Illinois, this 28th day of July, 1905.

JOHN H. LAWRENCE.

Witnesses:

FRED S. HowE, CHAS. E. FRAZER. 

